Perennial phlox

No wonder these plants phlox named. In translation, "phlox" means "flame." Amazingly beautiful phlox. Very much of their diverse colors: fiery red, red-purple, ruby, cherry, raspberry, pink, dark-pink, purple, violet ... Not consider all shades, colors, combinations. There are these plants remarkable property: they are easily and quickly multiply! That's about all these "secrets" phlox we will tell. Phlox can be duplicated throughout the year: fall and winter, and spring and summer! Under winter sowing phlox. Seeds of late varieties harvested in October. 'This stems from the boxes in the stage of maturity of the wax are cut and tie in loose bunches. Beams are placed in gauze bags to the seeds during the opening of boxes is not scattered. And a week hung on the verandah or in the barn, and then the stove or radiators. When most of the boxes will be opened or severely hard, clean the seeds. Interestingly, phlox have good germination and immature, and even green seeds. Just do not lag behind in their planting. Phlox seed germination during storage decreases with each passing month. So try to sow them under the winter. Seeds are sown in boxes with the land and are buried to a depth of one centimeter. Boxes stored until the spring under the snow. Around the phlox in the spring you can find a lot of shoots. They appeared. from crumbling in the fall and winter seeds. Seedlings carefully scoop out and transplanted to a separate patch. Between young phlox leave a distance of 20 cm between rows - 25 inches. Most of them to fall bloom. The following year, in spring transplant the seedlings to a permanent place in the flower bed. When breeding the seeds can get a plant with a new color of the flowers. In spring and autumn can be propagated by division, this perennial sprawling shrubs. A very busy season for reproduction phlox - summer. In this time of their cuttings. For rooting green cuttings do not necessarily have a greenhouse or a greenhouse. They well get accustomed to the ridge. Just arrange them in a lightly shaded place. On a bed roll in the sand layer and a half to two centimeters. Each stalk Phlox should have two pairs of leaves. Bottom pair of leaves cut off, shorten the upper half. Shanks cut into the shadows, lest they wither before landing. It is useful to them also wrapped in a damp cloth. Some flower growers put them in jars with water. Seedlings planted obliquely to a depth of about one centimeter. Between cuttings should be a distance of five or six centimeters between rows eight to ten centimeters. They are rooted in two weeks or three. Keep the humidity of the soil, the cuttings are very useful to spray. When the cuttings root, they are transplanted to another flower bed, more room. Propagation by cuttings in early autumn young phlox to bloom already. But this is not the last method of propagation of phlox. They can also be propagated by layering and root cuttings.